> Even if you let a process crash in the BEAM, but you don't leave the system in a consistent, recoverable state, the BEAM is not going to help you. The thing

> Even if you let a process crash in the BEAM, but you don't leave the system in a consistent, recoverable state, the BEAM is not going to help you. The thing is, the default in the beam is that on crash you are in a recoverable state (file descriptors are closed, memory is freed). You have to work hard to not have that be the situation. Other languages do not do this for you, and make you manage state back to recoverability with potentially confusing unwinding of stack state.